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Tue, 01/15/2008 - 16:07 — emmetth
Type: 
Cash Game

Holiday schedule was fairly busy for me. Spent the holidays visiting Nashville and Memphis doing all the touristy things there which was fun.

I also switched my money over to Poker Stars. I like Full Tilt however when I signed up I didn't know about the rake back deals. Once you are signed up you can not get rakeback because you have to sign up with an affiliate.

If I could get a rakeback deal I would play exclusively at Full Tilt. I find it a little ironic that the way their customer rewards program is driving me to other sites.

After I finish off my PokerStars bonus I'll plan on doing gathering up deposits at some of the other sites.

I'm interested in Bodog because of their beginner tournaments where they pay half the field. I think this would be a good way to get some cheap experience for holdem sit-n-gos and baby mtts.

I'll probably go with Absolute poker next becasue it will work on my Mac and I can get rakeback. I'm aware of the cheating scandal that recently happened but am not too worried about it since I am a low stakes player.

As for actually playing poker I just finished final tables a $10 razz tournament with 104 players. I was extremely short stacker early in the tournament then managed to get a huge stake $40k around the half way mark. I ended up treading water till the end. And bricked some premium hands and ended up at $10k with about 10 people left. I managed to steal my way to 7th position while being card dead but the antes became so large that the big stacks where able to call me down in the end.

PokerStars Tournament #72644333, Limit Razz
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
104 players
Total Prize Pool: $1040.00
Tournament started - 2008/01/13 - 16:45:00 (ET)

Dear bickmat,

You finished the tournament in 7th place.
A $42.64 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Amount: 
-33

Comments

Mon, 01/21/2008 - 07:23 — Anonymous (not verified)

You idiot. If you want to

You idiot. If you want to get rakeback on full tilt, all you have to do is create a new account through an affiliate site. Full tilt only checks to make sure there arent multiple accounts on one email so as long as you open your new account with a different email than your original account then you can get rake back. Thats what the rest of us do. Use your brain idiot.

Thu, 01/17/2008 - 16:39 — sirfwalgman (not verified)

KORD

Next KORD this Friday.

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 16:36 — D (not verified)

Absolute

The Razz is basically dead on Absolute. A few regulars show up at very low stakes, and sometimes some VERY bad players, but there is often no action at all.

I too love FT, and play there, but the inability to get rakeback drives me crazy. I think I may create a new account under my wife's name...